RAPID/Collaborative Research: Collection of Perishable Hurricane Isaac Data on Weather-Related Damage to Power Infrastructure

这项合作快速反应研究（Rapid）赠款提供资金，用于收集飓风艾萨克对输电线路、配电线路和变电站造成损害的现场数据。飓风造成的电力损失影响了100多万家庭和企业，超过25万客户的恢复工作花了72个多小时。这些停电的具体原因尚不清楚，但据报道，有40多个变电站被风或洪水损坏。重要的是要迅速收集有关输配电线路损坏的数据，并确定损坏的原因是由风还是由洪水造成的。根据该奖项收集的数据将被存档在美国风能工程协会的网站上，使其他研究人员能够访问。这些数据也将由美国国家标准与技术研究所存档。

This collaborative Rapid Response Research (RAPID) Grant provides funding to collect field data about damage by Hurricane Isaac to transmission lines, distribution lines and electrical substations. The power loss resulting from this hurricane affected more than one million households and businesses, and the restoration for over 250,000 customers took more than 72 hours. The specific reasons for these power outages are not known, though it is reported that more than 40 substations were damaged either by wind or flood. It is important to collect the data about damages to transmission and distribution lines quickly, and to determine whether the cause of the damage was by wind or by flood.The data that will be collected under this award will be archived on the web site of the American Association for Wind Engineering enabling access to other researchers. These data will also be archived by the National Institute of Standards and Technology.